, 1887-10-02
RELIEVED OF $50.
las. Burrup, a Cheyenne & BurIlng-
ton Grader, the Loser.
He Accuses a Livery Stable En-
pIoye of the Robbery.
A Fruitless Midnight Chase Made
by the officials.
The Aggrleyed Party Refuses to
Prosecute the Suspect"

About IL o'clock last night a LEADER
reporter wa hot on the scent of an item
which promised to pan out better than
McGarigle's escape from Chicago did to
the ~newsgatherers of that city. The man
who always wants to know what you
know, you know, imagined hat the al
legged incident was about the most sensa.
tional thing which had occurred since the
killing of Mullaly in 1867 in a Themes
street gambling house.
1t required a detective ability second
only to that of the famous Lecoa to
gather all the facts and weave them into
a mat for the reading public to pick to
pieces and gossip over this morning. The
circumstances of the adventure are as
follows:
A son of James Burrup, a reputed
Mormon, who has been working upon the
Cheyenne & Burlington grade during the
season at present drawing to a close with
a snow covered back and foreground and
a clouded sky, was snxiously seeking an
officer at the hour named above. The
writer was, of course, curious to learn
what was "in the wind" and lost no time
in introducing the grader to "one of the
finest in Cheyenne. The boy, who is
evidently about &c years of age, stated in
"mournful numbers that his father had
been robbed bya livery stable employee
while riding about town with the latter.
The highwayman had secured $3.50 and
had left the country with both money and
rig. Father and his companion we're
slightly inebriated, which circumstance
assisted materially in the commission of
the dual crime. His four brothers were
securing the surrounding country in
search of the miscreant who had the
audacity to rob an aged and drunken man
and the owners of the stable were search
ing for "a big white horse attached to a
side bar buggy in which was seated a man
about five feet tall" Would the uni
formed official kindly JON in the chase?
the scent was comparatively fresh, and the
reward would be liberal.
IF there is one thing a Magic City
guardian of the people prefers TO another
it is the pursuit of desperate criminals.
but the policeman was Of the firm opinion,
founded upon a passage from section
2l40 of the revised statutes, that the
sheriff should be informed of the occur
renee.
The party proceeded to the court house
and interviewed Sheriff Sbarpless. who
resembled a man who had spent three
weeks in Denver, as he stood at the door
and exposed enough of his anatomy to
warrant a person in drawing the inference
that he hadn't taken any particular care
in preparing his toilet after arising. The
official listened ~intently TO the story re.
lated by the offspring of the wronged
party, and Immediately set three of his
sleuth hounds on the trail.
The party then returned to the barn
where the alleged stolen rig belonged and
awaited developments. In about ten
minutes a policeman arrived driving the
big white horse and by his side was
the supposed bold and dashing highway
robber, whose name is not given for obvi-
Gus reasons.
The entire crowd then marched to the
Mormon camp on Crow creek. The old
man who claimed to be a victim of the
prisoners love for lucre staggered from
his tent and said hat he was $3.50 short
and that he firmly believed that the five
footer had relieved him of that sum, as
he had associated with no one else during
the evening. However, he didn't desire
to cause any trouble and would see about
the matter in the morning or some other
time, and this ended it.
1t was not established to a certainty
that Burrup was the possessor of the sum
mentioned, but if he was it is more than
likely that he lost it in one of the numer-
gus dives which he visited while drinking.
&Re gentleman accused of the theft was
naturally very indignant and darby
limited that he would bring an action for
damages. He is very fortunate, as the
matter stands, and should be satisfied.
Had those four Mormon boys found him
on the prairie they would simply have
perforated his anatomy with rife balls and
buried him beneath the sun cured cacti.
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